hard drives use voice coils, a completely different technology. The circuitry that does that evolved and certainly influenced the creation of microstepper controllers: the neat trick they do is treat the stepper motor as a voice coil in between full steps.

https://www.facebook.com/RepThomasMassie/posts/1009013893914...

Before that, the precision available without gearing and feedback wasn't sufficient. There were systems but they were order of magnitude more complicated and several orders more expensive.

Amazing how much more effective the "crypto industry" dollar was than the Democratic Party dollar. Perhaps the Democrats should hire some of the crypto people next election.

the corporate stance is irrelevant: all it takes is one low level schmuck with access and enough police record to be subject to "pressure".

Rotate or otherwise pay attention to freshness if you want to drink it.

https://simplypreparing.com/weeks-worth-of-water-storage-for...

serious nuts do things like put 1,000gal underground cisterns in their water systems. and/or frequently drink from local water streams so as to maintain a tolerance for the local "wild" water.

https://libguides.princeton.edu/elections

If you're worried now about not being able to trust the government next year; ask yourself why you have been trusting them to this point? Whatever your opinion of them, government at all levels is made of people no better or worse than you, as subject to error and blind obedience.

lawsuits against the Federal government will have a more receptive audience: lawyers will be more willing to undertake such cases, judges to hear them, the public will be interested in them. The idea that "government is automatically always Good" is being shelved until the next time it's needed. Citizens will again have standing to bring suits.

Antitrust could turn into a big deal, but only if there's some attitude changes in the current big money alliances.

The bigs might sacrifice some of their own in order to insure their own survival. For example, Nvidia might be "too big, too concentrated" but Amazon will be "diverse" enough to be spared.

occam's razor and a complete lack of actual white supremacists on the ground suggests this is another example of same.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj98grr5lo

Isn't it good to be reassured this is so uncommon that no more precautions were actually needed to prevent it.

Everybody else, whose only involvement is to be a victim of politician plans, has no call for the levels of emotion that some of us invest in political puffery. We've got people bragging over "I'm no longer speaking to family" over ephemeral tribal alliances less relevant to their day to day lives than sports teams.

all enemies are Hitler and yesterday's heroes are today's villains for heresy because they did not hate hard enough. Evil is abundant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes

Remember Microsoft buying into the lawsuit on SCO's side?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/fact-and-fiction-in-...

> During his first presidency Trump instituted a limited number of extra tariffs, chiefly against China. Upon taking office, President Joe Biden kept them in place and even extended them. But what's different about these new proposals is that they are rising across the board by up to 20 percent, or so it has been said on the campaign trail.

and also: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/us/politics/us-biden-chin...

Take a look at what the Metaverse bubble has left us vs what it cost, in direct dollars and in lost opportunities to pursue other goals.

this cycle of AI is as bad or worse. at least the leftovers when the bubble pops are going to be more generally useful than the VR detritus. Getting the Cult of CurrentThing to stop mindlessly objecting to power generation is a big win; but i doubt they've secured that long term.

Leftover nvidia vector processors may have legitimate uses after they get scrapped from the big AI places, too.

Odd that they've never turned this up before now, in all their previous reporting on Musk and his enterprises.

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